Cranford: Consort Music for 4, 5 & 6 Viols

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Label
Olde Focus Recordings
Release Date
September 11, 2015
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CRANFORD, WILLIAM
    • PERFORMER
      Lestrange Viols
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 11, 2015
    • UPC
      798576778422
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FCR905
    • LABEL
      Olde Focus Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Fantasia a 6 No. 6

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    2. Fantasia a 6 No. 2

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    3. Fantasia a 6 No. 4

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    4. Quadran pavan a 6

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    5. Fantasia a 6 No. 3

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    6. Fantasia a 6 No. 1

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    7. Fantasia a 6 No. 5

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    8. Passamezzo pavan a 6

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    9. Fantasia a 4 No. 3

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    10. Fantasia a 4 No. 1

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    11. Fantasia a 4 No. 2

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    12. Fantasia a 4 No. 4

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    13. Fantasia a 5 No. 2

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    14. Go From My Window a 5

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    15. Fantasia a 5 No. 1

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    16. In Nomine a 5

      Composer: William Cranford

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols


LeStrange Viols presents the modern premier recording of nearly all of William Cranford's surviving works for consort, including the complete fantasias for 4, 5, and 6 viols, the substantial and virtuosic 6-part pavans ("Passamezzo" and "Quadran"), and his distinctive 5-part setting of the In nomine and playful variations on the well-known tune "Go from my window." This is also the first major single-composer release by an American viol consort in more than two decades. Little is known about the life of composer William Cranford (fl. 1630s) beyond his remarkable surviving chamber music for viol consort, a Renaissance string ensemble that attracted the best English composers from William Byrd to Henry Purcell. Cranford's music-by turns sonorous, expressive, quirky, and forward looking-represents some of finest surviving writing for the ensemble.